About Us

Problem

United States food and agriculture policies currently enable a handful of the world’s largest corporations to control our food and farming system at the expense of farmers, workers, and all of us who eat.

Mission

Farm Action is a nonpartisan agricultural watchdog organization led by farmers. We advocate for accountability from both our government and large corporations within the agricultural sector.

Vision

We envision a fair, sustainable, and healthy food system that empowers farmers, workers, and rural communities to feed America.

Values

We believe government should serve the interests of all people, and we’re not afraid to take on the threat of undue corporate influence on agriculture policy. We work collaboratively to build the strength to win this fight, and we act with uncompromising honesty and integrity in our work.

Our Approach

Farm Action team members have a proven track record of success and are tested leaders in the food and farm community. Here’s how we deliver big wins for America’s farmers, workers, and rural communities:

Education: Our success is built on a solid foundation of research, and is driven by our ability to develop complex issues into accessible blogs, videos, graphics, and other educational tools for policymakers, the press, and the general public. In the past year, our work has been featured in more than 3,000 news stories, including every major media outlet.
Collaboration: Farm Action brings together a broad, diverse group of unlikely allies to build the capacity to challenge the world’s largest corporations. We lead or participate in numerous coalitions to facilitate this collaboration.
Leadership: Farm Action’s Local Leaders program trains and empowers individuals to take strategic action. Local Leaders are a reliable resource for reporters, researchers, policymakers, and their own communities.
Policy Reform: Farm Action has earned the respect of key members of Congress and federal agencies. Our policy recommendations have been developed into 20 different pieces of Congressional legislation, and our reports have resulted in multiple federal antitrust and regulatory actions.

Our Origin Story

Building a Movement for a Fair, Sustainable, and Healthy Food and Agriculture System

From unfair agriculture markets to worker abuses, inhumane animal conditions, and environmental degradation, our founders saw a common theme in our food and agriculture system: at the root of all these issues lies monopolistic corporate control of government policy, impacting every one of us.

By connecting and supporting unlikely allies, we spread awareness that abusive corporate power is the common adversary to a resilient and just food and agriculture system. Our mission keeps the interconnectedness of the land, animals, workers, farmers, ranchers, and communities at the forefront of this fight.

Today, Farm Action is a thought leader, policy developer, and network builder for farmers and ranchers, food chain workers, consumers, organizations, and policymakers up and down the food supply chain. Headquartered in Missouri, we are a tax-deductible charitable 501(c)(3) organization that formed as an affiliate of Farm Action Fund, a political nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization.

Together, our two organizations represent a seamless chain of action from research and policy development, to the adoption of the policy through legislative action by elected officials who support our vision.